Self storage units

[gfretwell]

My dog has a facebook page. I don't

[krw]

"...without even asking a single question about the item ; or VERY INTERESTED BUYERS - until you tell them you won't deliver and they will have to < heaven forbid > leave The City and drive 20 miles to see it .."

This is classic scammer's ploy. They want to buy <anything>, send too much money then want you to return the rest. What they paid you is rubber money. If the transaction is in-person, the scam doesn't work.

[DerbyDad03]

I have a 90+ YO aunt. Totally blind. She lives in a senior living complex that is HUD funded. The vast majority of occupants (but not her) are retired nuns. It's a very nice, well maintained and secure place to live.

Unfortunately, she's a hoarder. SWMBO is her POA and 2+ years ago we got a call from the company that runs the facility. There was a HUD inspection coming up and there was no way that her apartment would pass. Eviction was a possibility unless she cleaned the place up.

She wouldn't let us throw anything out and chose instead to rent a storage facility for the minimum amount of things that we needed to remove to make the apartment "inspectable". I pay for it every month and every few months she reimburses me with a money order. (I haven't told her that the monthly cost went up last year).

No has been to the unit in those 2+ years. She keeps saying that she'll want me to bring the stuff back someday but "not yet". I can just about guarantee that it will go straight from storage into the same dumpster as the rest of her stuff when she dies.

[Ed Pawlowski]

That's a tough situation. You know as soon as you toss one trinket she is going to ask you to bring it back.

[hubops]

Nope - there's no sending money ; no shipping.. It's a face-to-face cash transaction that begins with a simple online advert and a reply. Both email addresses are encoded for privacy. John T.

[krw]

I was repeating what *YOU* said. <sheesh>

[angelica...]

Oven outside wouldn't work for us, of course. We thought about moving it there for the duration of the remodel. Gas and electricity are available outdoors, although the gas connection would be decidedly non-code. The whole job is unpermitted. We usually don't pull a permit unless the work will show from the outside.

We have a induction hot plate that we've been using, but we have a limited number of pans that will work with it.

We set up the dishwasher in the laundry room. That's the only thing holding my sanity together. I'd be pretty bitchy if I had to wash dishes by hand. I resent having to hand-wash the sharp knives.

It's been about a month and I expect it'll be another six weeks before everything is back together, depending on how speedy the flooring and countertop installations can be schedule. We don't use the stove all that much this time of year anyway.

My husband loves to give me stuff for Christmas. I haven't quite mastered a look of delight when viewing, say, a panini press that I didn't want. The best I can manage is "I'm glad this dog turd is dried and not stinky."

Cindy Hamilton

[Larry]

You women invented all these damned gift-required holidays. Live with it.

FWIW, I think the panini press was a hint. Give the panini press back along with a link to Sam The Cooking Guy's youtube channel.

[angelica...]

Can't hang that one on me. We don't do Hallmark holidays (Valentine's day, Sweetest Day, all that money-churning crap) in our house. We do Christmas because of nostalgia and because it's nice to have the lighted tree in the house when it's so dark in December.

Anniversaries usually involve the exchange of greeting cards on a bodily-function theme.

My husband already knows how to cook. Everything from tossed salad to an entire roast pig.

Cindy Hamilton

[DerbyDad03]

Yeah, and even though she is 90+ and has been blind for over 20 years, she, for the most part, knows what's in just about every box and knows where the boxes are in her apartment.

"There's a stack of 3 boxes in the far left corner of the bedroom. In the middle box, towards the front, there's a manila envelope. Could you get that for me?" She is extremely intelligent and her memory is phenomenal.

The biggest issue is that it's mostly paperwork - thousands of pages - that she doesn't want to get rid of until "she goes through them". So she needs someone to read them to her. "What's the date?" "What's the amount?" "Does it have the name of the doctor on it?" "You know, I started seeing that doctor when we lived on Elm St. He had nurse named Ann that I didn't get along with."

Imagine that kind of process for box after box of paperwork, going back decades. It's brutal and patience is not my strong suit. Heck, that suit isn't even in my closet. ;-)

[krw]

I was wondering if neighbors were moving when I saw a Pod in their driveway. The next day there was a flooring truck in the front, then someone cutting tile, then hardwood, then... Seemed like a pretty good idea.

Them's fightin' words.

[krw]

I bought one for my wife about nine years ago, when they first came out. She loves them and cooks on/in it at least three nights a week. She usually does chicken but last night did a NY strip. It was very good. Cooked perfectly. I think she's on her fourth air-fryer. They don't last forever but are quite cheap now.

[gfretwell]

When we had the kitchen torn up I had the oven out in the tiki bar, plugged into my welder outlet. That was where we cooked the thanksgiving turkey.

I decided it could stay outside and we ended up with this right outside the door after a little evolution. Everything was free except the convection oven that I got for $150 on Craigslist. It was pre owned but probably never used. The book was still taped to one of the racks. The water heater is outside too in a small "Pump house" to the left of the oven. It keeps the heat out of the house and reduces my AC bill. We don't run the heat here.

I don't mind washing the few dishes the two of us accumulate.

[gfretwell]

It is just a convection oven and I have one. I do steaks on the grill and I don't have a problem with a big pot of hot oil to fry stuff. I can do that outside too so I don't stink up the house. I am still trying to find something that is actually better in the air fryer. It seems like it is for folks who say "It tastes like shit but you can live off of it". Sort of like the microwave.

[gfretwell]

Salt laden, chemically preserved, highly processed food in a plastic bag. Your idea of "cooking". No thanks.

[gfretwell]

I guess you never read the ingredients on that Lenards web site.

[Ed Pawlowski]

BBQ Chicken Sausage Roll Puff Pastry (Wheat Flour, Margarine [Vegetable Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (471, 322 (Soy Derived), Preservative (202), Acidity Regulator (330), Antioxidant (307b (Soy Derived))], Water, Milk Solids, Preservative (202), Salt), Chicken (23%), Chicken Breast (23%), Water, Carrots, Marinade (Water, Tomato Paste, Dextrose, Golden Syrup, Soy Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, Thickener (1442), Reconstituted Lemon Juice, Flavour, Garlic Powder, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (Soy), Chilli Powder, Colour (150a), Food Acid (330), Vegetable Gum (415)), Seasoning (Rice Flour, Salt, Tapioca, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Sugar, Acidity Regulator (451), Preservative (223), Natural Flavour, Vegetable Oil (Canola), Dehydrated Vegetable, Spice), Onion, Ghee, Sesame Seeds, Seasoning, Coating (Sugar, Salt, Tapioca Starch, Thickener (Modified Waxy Maize Starch, Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose, Guar Gum), Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Spices (Paprika, Chilli), Flavour (Contains Soy), Garlic, Rice Flour Coarse, Anti-Caking Agent (Silicon Dioxide), Colour (Caramel))

Don't think my grandmother ever used Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose in her foods. I guess we missed out.

[krw]

Not at all. It's quite good and nothing like a microwave at all. Forget fried food. My cardiologist would kill me if the food didn't get there first.

[rbowman]

If it has more that 5 ingredients... I just came back from the grocery store.

Atlantic salmon ingredients: salmon broccoli ingredients: broccoli green pepper ingredients: green pepper.

I plan to bake the salmon filet, adding extra virgin olive oil and dill seed. The broccoli gets steamed, with grass fed butter added before serving and maybe a sprinkle of grated parmesan if I'm in the mood.

[Joey]

Mad with ready to cook food like that and other food eaten as you buy it like bread, cookies, marmalade and chocolate etc.

Which means there is a lot more than just 5 ingredients and you had to fart around a lot more to eat it.